Although the poetry of William Butler Yeats is often misconstrued as autobiographical, the poet scorned such transparency, calling it “unimaginative” and comparing realism to “putting photographs in a plush frame.”
Daily Archives: January 7, 2017
With Extreme Prejudice: David Guinn’s Night Room
For Night Room, David Guinn treated the two rooms in the gallery as different parts of the mind.
Diana Copperwhite: Signal to Noise
Sometimes a single, simple pictorial device is all it takes to set your work apart.
Hard Looking: Proust and Gauguin on Art
Gauguin’s art furthered the dematerialization of beauty that Proust discerned in Rembrandt’s use of light by freeing color from form and drawing from realism.